Living Worlds
A coral-stone town on the Swahili coast in golden light, rooftop gardens with small solar panels and dhows coming into harbour.

Age · The 2040s and 2060s

Futures, imagined

Roofs mended together, terraces farmed again.

Observed

Evidence

Places, dates and measured rates, from sources.

Inferred

Parameters

The rates and structures fitted to that evidence.

Simulated

Behaviour

Lives stepped month by month under those rates.

Generated

Outcome

Each life's story, told as a composite, never a real person.

Meanwhile

2 worlds, side by side.

Each keeps its own time. None is ranked above another.

A coral-stone town on the Swahili coast in golden light, rooftop gardens with small solar panels and dhows coming into harbour. Imagined: the Swahili coast, the 2040s · ImaginedMending TownNothing is thrown away. Restored stone terraces of potatoes, maize and quinoa curving down an Andean valley in early light, farmers at work, snow peaks above. Imagined: the Andes, the 2060s · ImaginedThe TerracesThe old ways keep the water.
A double-hulled voyaging canoe with pandanus sails on the open Pacific at dusk.

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